Monthly Archive for February, 2012

: February, 2012

A share from the wonderful Nikki Gardner at Art & Lemons.
Thanks Nikki!
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I was seven when I first learned to cook. After years of sitting on counters with the cooks in my family, mostly my mother and grandmother, I picked up basic kitchen skills like how to scramble an egg, put together a […] …

From our friend Amanda Blake, who writes the very popular blog Soule Mama, comes Taproot: Living Fully, Digging Deeper a new quarterly, independent, ad-free print magazine. This carefully constructed publication is a collection of curated stories written by and for people living fully and digging deeper; people who are interested in deepening their connections to their […] …

I’m not a college student who’s upset because I don’t have enough money to buy more ramen at the grocery store. I’m a college professor and cooking teacher who has wondered for several decades about what happens to the edible food-like substances we stuff in our pie-hole. Notice I didn’t say the word “food” but […] …

What do you do after dinner? Plop down on the sofa? Surf pay per view? Cram in six more emails that need to be written? Research (as evidenced in the video below) reminds us that taking an evening constitutional instead may be the best preventative medicine available.
I had the privilege of visiting a small city […] …

Sweet tooth…eating lots of sugar.. empty calories…blah blah blah…tooth decay..weight gain…yes we know. Most don’t care. We want it.
As a forever-recovering sugar addict, I wonder often about what causes us to WANT the stuff so much. Sugar has an addictive quality, meaning that when you eat some you want more. Eating a candy bar isn’t […] …

Number #81 aka Jake from way up northeast in Arlington, Massachusetts was selected.
Congrats Jake! You’re going to love this book.
His response:
“I am torn. I love our grain farmers at Pioneer Valley Heritage Grain CSA! They deliver some of the most nutritious grains anyone could hope for. Just the other day we had a Arikara bean […] …

CONTEST CLOSED!
We are offering a beautiful new hardcover book to our Cookus Interruptus fans this week.
New from chef/author Tamara Murphy feast your eyes on TENDER. Tamara is a much honored and always inventive James Beard award winner and one of Food & Wine magazine’s early career picks for “Ten Best New Chefs in America” is […] …

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